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MELBOURNE, Friday (Reuters) - The Australian Cricket Board's (ACB) hearing into Shane Warne's positive drug test began on Friday with the leg-spinner flanked by four lawyers as he tried to save his career.

Warne faces up to a two-year ban for taking a banned diuretic in January. A two-year ban would effectively end the controversial 33-year-oldr's international career.

Warne has said he did not know the fluid-reducing tablet given to him by his mother contained a banned drug. But he has yet to explain why he took the tablet.

"We have no idea at all how long this might take or whether there will be a determination by the end of the day," ACB spokesman Peter Young told reporters camped outside the hearing in Melbourne.

Warne arrived one hour before the start looking composed, and was accompanied by his mother, father, wife and brother.

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